Before you begin work to reuse the content in an Open edX course, check with
your development operations (DevOps) team for information about the
website to use. At some sites, a completely separate Open edX instance, with
a different Studio website, is set up to be the LTI tool provider.

When you create links to edX course content in your external LMS, you can link
to components individually, to all of the content in a unit, or to all of the
content in a subsection.

As you plan which parts of the course you want to reuse, note the following
considerations.

Some edX content can be confusing to learners when it appears in the context
of an external LMS. For example, in some configurations, edX course
discussions identify learners by their internally assigned edX IDs instead of
by their usernames. Rather than linking to a subsection or unit that contains
discussion components, you could plan to either link only to specific
components or remove the discussion components from the unit or subsection,
and then use the features available in your external LMS to add discussion
forums to the course.

Optional edX course features that create groups of learners based on their
IDs, such as content experiments and cohorts, are not designed to provide
results for external use. To use features like these for your course, you
should plan to set them up in the external LMS.

To ensure that edX content remains available without interruption, edX course
content appears in the external LMS regardless of the start, end, or
enrollment dates that are defined for the edX course.

To ensure that learners see only edX content that is ready for use, only
course content that is published appears in an external LMS.

To select content in your duplicate edX course for reuse in an external LMS,
you use Studio to review the course outline and make note of the components,
units, and subsections you want to include.

Using an organizational tool, such as a spreadsheet, can be helpful. For
example, you can use a spreadsheet column to identify the type of content (for
example, component, unit, subsection), and add their display names to the next
column. Additional columns can contain the values that you use to construct the
addresses for your LTI links. For more information about addressing content,
see Determining Content Addresses.

Optionally, you can streamline the contents of units and subsections by
removing components, or disable course features that you do not plan to use.

The Hide from students setting for sections, subsections,
and units does not affect the visibility of content in an external LMS. Only
the publication status of a unit can prevent content from being included.

To verify that all of the content in your edX course is published, follow these
steps.

In Studio, from the Content menu select Outline. The Course
Outline page opens.

Expand each section and subsection.

Locate units with “Unpublished units will not be released” or “Unpublished
changes to live content” below the unit name.

For each unpublished unit, make any changes that are necessary to prepare
the content for publication. Alternatively, delete the unit.